The New Year resolutions have been ripped up quicker than Sinead O’Connor’s wedding certificate and the old ways still apply so far as the Hotline nation’s concerned.

Peace and conciliation is for the United Nations, we’ve got a title conflict to attend to in this country that has no room for do-gooders or anyone else who wants to muddy the waters with logic or reason.

Thomas Seery, Basingstoke, set a scintillating pace in the 2012 battle of the bragging rights.

He said: “I don’t want to read any more Rangers supporters on the Hotline making points about Celtic.

“Everything in our garden is coming up roses, thanks very much. Rangers is a sinking ship and everything about Ibrox is a total shambles. The callers should stick to their own team.”

Marvellous. Denial of free speech and a verdict delivered without the trial being over. An exemplary caller.

Then Derek Reid, Dollar, said: “I’d like to remind Celtic fans they wouldn’t be top of the league if it wasn’t for a dodgy decision to deny Rangers a goal in the last Old Firm game. The championship’s won over 38 games but they’re celebrating now. We’ll see.”

Instant equaliser. Commendable.

Norrie McSween, Kirkintilloch, said: “I can’t believe Rangers have turned down £500,000 from Sochaux for a player as bad as Maurice Edu. I’d have taken £500 to get rid of him.”

But Barry McCallum, Falkirk, said: “Edu looked back to his best against Arbroath in the Cup.

“He’s an honest guy who always gives 100 per cent. I hope he stays.”

Hero or zero. What’s it to be?

George Robertson, Falkirk, said: “Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell said he’d turned down a £29million offer for Gary Hooper in the last transfer window. Now he seems to have dropped his price.”

I think you might find that was a joke.

Like Dunky Robertson, London, who said: “It was a comfort to read in Record Sport that Neil Lennon is saying ‘No sale’ concerning Hooper, Kris Commons and Adam Matthews.

“Does that mean he’s sending the English homewards to think again?”

But, in the spirit of taking no prisoners, John Anderson, Hamilton, said: “Jim McInally’s tactics against Celtic on Sunday left me raging.

“He admitted on radio before the game that he was asking his Peterhead players to leave the foot in and test the referee’s patience.

“Emilio Izaguirre, Joe Ledley, Georgios Samaras and Anthony Stokes could all have been badly hurt.”

Kevin McQuade, New Stevenston, added: “Operation Kick Celtic Off The Park is well and truly under way.

“McInally’s got a chip on his shoulder because he wasn’t given a proper chance as a player at Parkhead.

But Andrew Lamb, Fraserburgh, said: “The Peterhead boys got in about Celtic in the old-fashioned way. It was meaty rather than malicious. A touch of the old Ron ‘Chopper’ Harris about it.”

Jim Shanley, Glasgow, said: “Stokes should be congratulated for his muted celebrations whenever he scores a goal, and Peterhead was a perfect example of good manners.

“There was no running to opposition fans to annoy them or any other nonsense, and that makes him an example to others.”

A scholar and a gentleman. There are so few of us left.

Morgan McKeown, Livingston, emailed: “Auchinleck Talbot’s display against Hearts in the Scottish Cup at Tynecastle proves there’s no great gulf between the junior game and the SPL.

“It’s time for a pyramid system of entry into the senior leagues.” And Jock Leitch, Auchinleck, said: “The size of the crowd Talbot took to Tynecastle proved the Hotline critics wrong. Some said the junior clubs shouldn’t be in the Scottish Cup and we showed that argument to be nonsense.”

Colin Paterson, Larkhall, said: “I couldn’t believe how selfish Cowdenbeath boss Colin Cameron was against Hibs in the Cup. He kept himself on the park for 90 minutes when it was obvious he should have come off. He looked like a 40-year-old man by the end.”

I wish I did.

Now here’s a woman with an idea, what are the odds?

Izzy Currie, Caithness, said: “I think there should be a new rule to cover penalties after watching Wayne Rooney score against Manchester City. If it was a penalty shoot-out the keeper’s initial save would have been the final outcome. Why is that not the case in regulation time?”

It’s a hard life being a Record Sport columnist, as Kenny Shiels is about to discover.

George McNeill, Kilmarnock, said: “Our manager moaned about the conditions being bad when we were taken to a replay by Dundee at the weekend. Why didn’t those same conditions prevent Dundee from playing us off the park?”

Tom Davidson, Kilmarnock, added: “When will Shiels realise Mohamadou Sissoko can’t handle cross balls because that’s not what he was used to with Udinese in Serie A?”

James McGregor, Dalry, said: “Killie are too one-dimensional. Does Shiels not know how to mix it up a bit?”

Now a word of praise for Record Sport columnist Alastair Forsyth.

William Fulton, Fishcross, emailed to say: “Congratulations to Alastair for his top-class performance in finishing fifth at the Africa Open.